What the Cybersecurity Alert Really Means for Device Manufacturers

On Tuesday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a cybersecurity alert which warned device manufacturers and hospitals of 11 vulnerabilities found in one of the most widely used remote operating systems in the world.

The vulnerabilities affect IPnet TCP/IP stack, the third-party software component supported by VxWorks by Wind River, which originally came to the attention of security company Armis Labs in July.